EU fines Microsoft record 899 million euros

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Posted: Wednesday, Feb 27, 2008 at 1900 hrs IST
Updated: Wednesday, Feb 27, 2008 at 1920 hrs IST


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Brussels, February 27:: issues of the 2004 case but with different products.

The Commission said in 2004 that Microsoft tied its Windows Media Player to Windows. Opera, maker of a Web browser, said Microsoft has done the same with Internet Explorer.

The new interoperability question concerns Microsoft Office and the difficulty for documents from rival systems to interoperate with Word and other Office products.

Kroes took a wait-and-see attitude about Microsoft's announcement of last week, noting it had promised change on four other occasions without results.

"A press release, such as that issued by Microsoft last week on interoperability principles, does not necessarily equal a change in a business practice," she said....

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